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HOLY TERROIR This slow-burning horror was filmed on location at a beautiful Tuscan vineyard and castello
like The Shining – a psychological film in which you don’t know what’s going on until right at the very end.” He settled on a vineyard in Seggiano – a Tuscan commune located about 100km south of Florence – as the setting for the movie. “My family had been there for a summer holiday, so my dad told me I had to check it out because it would make the perfect setting for a creepy horror film,” Greenop says. “I couldn’t afford to go, so I just looked it up and realised it would be a great place to shoot a
by Storey’s friend and property investor George Michael Georgiou. It was a far cry from Bitter Harvest , the Storey-produced film Hassan had just finished shooting with Terence Stamp. “That was a £30m film,” he says. “We had no runners on House Red , our line producer had to go on another job. I was delivering dialogue in character, then after a scene I’d run off and clean the car for the next scene. It was a labour of love.” PICTURE PERFECT House Red centres on a couple going on a summer vacation to Italy to rekindle their relationship. They travel to a remote vineyard to spend the summer grape- picking, but soon discover there is more to the terroir than meets the eye, as their time descends to a hellish spiral. Director Coz Greenop says he got the idea for House Red from his previous film, Dark Beacon . “I knew one of the things that had going for it was its location [La Corbière Lighthouse in Jersey],” he says. “I then had this idea to film a Sweeney Todd-style film on a vineyard. I started writing it and researching all the wines from the region, while looking back at Hammer Horrors and other slow-burning films, rather than the shock to your face or jump scare type. I wanted something
“I was delivering dialogue in character, then after a scene I’d run off and clean the car for the next scene. It was a labour of love”
ON WITH THE SHOW When a key investor pulled out, the team had to go ahead and shoot with a smaller budget
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